Chinese scholars raised new South China Sea sovereignty questions by asserting that the Philippines' Batanes Islands legally ...

Batan Island, the gateway to Batanes, is one of three main islands of the province (the others are Sabtang and Itbayat) and ...

The Philippines will not entertain revisionist claims over its territory' says the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs ...

A GROUP of Chinese scholars has claimed that the Philippines’ northernmost province of Batanes belongs to China through Taiwan, asserting that Manila’s administration of the islands has no historical ...

THE Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has dismissed as “revisionist” assertions made at a Chinese academic symposium claiming sovereignty over the Batanes, stressing that the province is ...

MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. on Thursday said a claim made by Chinese scholars—that the Philippines’ northernmost province of Batanes is an extension of Taiwan ...

Over and over we, as Ivatans, have had to assert our identity and protect our community,' says author Dorian Merina amid ...

The Batanes Islands, which are covered by the so-called maritime delimitation talks between Japan and the Philippines, are ...

THE Republic of the Philippines. No doubt. The subject of this essay are territories reckoned from Babuyan and Balintang ...

71.784 square kilometers of the total land area, or roughly around 14 percent, represent the combined land areas of the seven uninhabited islets. Only 6 percent of entire land area is comprised of ...

Led by the Batanes Tourism and Hospitality Monitoring Centre (BTHMC), in collaboration with the province and its local stakeholders, this observatory is committed to supporting the sustainable ...